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Aug 14, 2010	Giving is no longer a government preserve
Aug 11, 2010	Protecting the Protectors - Vestergaard-Frandsen gifts insecticidal nets to WTI
Aug 10, 2010	African NBA Stars Use Height to Hang Bed Nets in Senegal
Aug 5, 2010	NRI boy delivers where State ‘fails'
July 24, 2010	Lutte contre le paludisme : Les acteurs craignent la résistance des vecteurs aux insecticides
July 2, 2010	Starlets, Maidens join United Against Malaria campaign
July 1, 2010	Investing in the bottom of the pyramid
June 13, 2010	Doing business and doing good
June 8, 2010	Susan G. Komen for the Cure® and World Health Leaders Launch Global Women’s Health Initiative
May 6, 2010	Aids patients pay the price as donors withhold funds
Apr 12, 2010	The Many Faces of Malaria
Mar 26, 2010	2010 Social Innovation Award Winners Announced
Mar 1, 2010	Work Smarter: Vestergaard Frandsen
Feb 14, 2010	Vi er ret alene in Danish
Jan 29, 2010	Kenya Seeks Support For a Combined HIV and Malaria Prevention Campaign
Dec 12, 2009	Model to fight diseases to save Sh67b
Dec 10, 2009	Company unveils new programme for cocoa farmers
Dec 10, 2009	En Afrique, au Nigeria, les moustiques résistent et profitent du réchauffement climatique
Dec 10, 2009	And the winners were . . .
Dec 9, 2009	Insecticide resistance deepens malaria crisis in Nigeria
Oct 13, 2009	Malaria in Africa: As new net distribution starts in Zambia, aid agency promotes correct, lifesaving use
Sept 18, 2009	Warm embrace that could save 20 million babies a year
Sept 2, 2009	Can a For-profit Entrepreneur Be a Social Entrepreneur?
Sept 1, 2009	Vestergaard launches ‘back to school’ campaign
Aug 10, 2009	Bangladesh: Uncultured Project and Clean Water
Aug 7, 2009	Disease-Fighting Mosquito Nets Now on Sale
Aug 5, 2009	Technology of the Future in Spanish (PDF, 274 kb)
Aug 5, 2009	Fighting Malaria: World Vision to distribute, test next-generation bed net
July 22, 2009	Clean, Clear Water
	LifeStraw: the invention of the century in Spanish (PDF, 606 kb)
July 19, 2009	Malaria War: Any Consideration on the Environment?
July 15, 2009	Father-son duo head to Sudan on mission trip
July 8, 2009	Thousands line up in Kenya for HIV testing
July 8, 2009	Real Economy Report
July 8, 2009	BASF Polyethersulfone Resin Used in New Water Purification System
June 30, 2009	Anti-Malaria Charity Pays for Nothing But Nets
June 08, 2009	Linking up to help lifesaving project
June 01, 2009	Eliminating Mosquitoes: Battle without End?
May 24, 2009	From the Dunn to the Third World: Clean water
May 14, 2009	LifeStraws
May 13, 2009	FASTCOMPANY - Design for a Living World' Preview: 10 Products That Stay True to Their Origins
Apr 29, 2009	Ferrari' of mosquito nets now in SL
Apr 25, 2009	Malaria battle needs joint action
Apr 23, 2009	Working Towards 'Counting Malaria Out' Through Scale-Up of PermaNet(R) Bed Nets, Vestergaard Frandsen Produces 175 Millionth Net; Introduces New Net To Combat Insecticide Resistance
Apr 14, 2009	April declared Malaria Month
Apr 14, 2009	Cost of malaria treatment to drop, says official
Apr 12, 2009	Khaleej Times Online - Experts Call for Quick Response to Recovery
Apr 06, 2009	Voice of America: Simple Way to Prevent Malaria While Sleeping
Apr 06, 2009	Voice of America: Simple Way to Prevent Guinea Worm Disease
Apr 06, 2009	Voice of America: A Straw that Prevents Disease and Saves Lives
Apr 04, 2009	Students take lifestraw initiative to NCAC
Apr 01, 2009	Millennium Development Goals Review: Disasters - Reality, Innovative Ideas and a Team Effort Create a Relief Blueprint
Mar 25, 2009	Thinking Day here leads to helping in Africa
Mar 01, 2009	Science Africa - Multiple Disease Control Model for Kenya and the World
Feb 27, 2009	PBS - Design for the Other 90 Percent
Feb 25, 2009	LifeStraw® to stem cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe
Feb 25, 2009	UNICEF and IKEA support 'permanets' to save lives from malaria in India
Feb 18, 2009	Three million PermaNet® bed nets on the way to 30 destinations across South Sudan
Feb 05, 2009	Daily Nation: Fighting Stigma
Feb 05, 2009	Global Challenges \| New York Times Examines Company Vestergaard-Frandsen's Efforts to Provide HIV Tests, Other Products in Developing Countries
Feb 04, 2009	Company Profits from Charitable Work
Feb 04, 2009	A look at Vestergaard Frandsen, the company behind the LifeStraw
Feb 04, 2009	Students sending LifeStraws to African village
Feb 03, 2009	New York Times: A Company Prospers by Saving Poor People's Lives
Jan 26, 2009	How Things Work: LifeStraw
Jan 23, 2009	Lurambi takes 'lead' in mass HIV testing
Jan 19, 2009	Massive Kenyan Concert on January 20th Kicks-off Global Celebration for Inauguration of Barack Obama
Jan 19, 2009	Hotels cash in on Obama's big day
Jan 18, 2009	Rural Kenyans Recently Diagnosed as Being HIV Positive to Get Improved Medical Care at New Emusanda Health Centre
Jan 21, 2009	Carnival as residents mark historic day
Jan 14, 2009	Ag Charter School hooks up with Kenya - Fund-raising campaign will supply funds for lifestraws.
Dec. 2008	Eyes on Malaria Online: Lifeline to Residents of Lurambi
Dec 08, 2008	African campaigners want anti-malaria protection for HIV positive people
Dec 01, 2008	Breakthrough in HIV Testing Seen in African Program
Dec 01, 2008	HIV/AIDS Testing Campaign in Kenya Successfully Combines Diarrhea and Malaria Prevention.
Nov 17, 2008	Scientific American: 2008 Gadget Guide: 11 Socially Responsible Inventions to Save the World - LifeStraw® Family
Nov 17, 2008	Scientific American: 2008 Gadget Guide: 11 Socially Responsible Inventions to Save the World - LifeStraw®
Nov 17, 2008	Scientific American: 2008 Gadget Guide: 11 Socially Responsible Inventions to Save the World - ZeroFly® and PermaNet®
Nov 17, 2008	Now Its Insecticide-Treated Curtain
Nov 05, 2008	Vestergaard Frandsen Combines Multiple Disease Interventions in Unique Campaign
Oct 02, 2008	Lurambi leads in HIV testing
Sep 29, 2008	Freebie approach looks to entice Kenyans into HIV tests
Sep 28, 2008	Campaign Reaches Rural Kenyans With HIV Info
Sep 25, 2008	Kenya's mass HIV testing drive gives villagers new lease of life (defunct)
Sep 20, 2008	Public, private partner up to fight common disease malaise in rural Kenyan communities
Sep 19, 2008	Kenya: HIV Tests Launch Wider Health Campaign
Sep 17, 2008	KENYA: A triple-whammy approach to disease prevention
Sep 16, 2008	Yvonne Chaka Chaka rocks Kakamega (defunct)
Sep 16, 2008	Kenya worries over fresh HIV infections (defunct)
Sep 16, 2008	Kenya fights malaria, HIV, diarrheal disease (defunct)
Sep 15, 2008	Raila to launch one-week HIV, malaria campaign (defunct)
Sep 15, 2008	Integrated Prevention Demonstration Campaign Launched in Western Kenya to Fight HIV, Malaria and Diarrhoeal Disease (defunct)
Sep 12, 2008	Princess of charity checks in (defunct)
Sep 08, 2008	After Hurricane Ike, Haiti needs `flood of helicopters' (defunct)
Sep 03, 2008	Lifeline for the water starved
Aug 25, 2008	Vestergaard embarks on back to school promo
Aug 18, 2008	Preventing AIDS, 40,000 People at a Time
Aug 07, 2008	First Lady Laura Bush and United Nations Foundation to Announce Nothing But Nets Distribution of Mosquito Nets to Combat Malaria in Burma (Myanmar)
Aug 07, 2008	Bed Nets to Burma
July 22, 2008	Vestegaard champions malaria elimination in Kodji community
July 10, 2008	South Florida hospital news- Fort Lauderdale Rotary Is Saving Lives in Africa with the "LifeStraw®"
July 07, 2008	National Geographic- Wet and Wonderful- World Water Day
July 07, 2008	Business Week - The Do-Good Imperative
July 01, 2008	Vanguard -Nigeria -Vestergaad promotes bed nets among market women in Lagos
June 27, 2008	Discovery Technology - 10 Innovations for Impoverished People.
June 23, 2008	The Wall Street Journal- Water, Water Everywhere...
June 23, 2008	Watertechonline- Water-purifying 'straw' in design spotlight
June 22, 2008	The Guardian - Vestergaard Battles Malaria Scourge In Nigeria
June 19, 2008	Forbes - Straws for Life
June 13, 2008	Portfolio, New York, USA : The Next Big Thing - Water
June 11, 2008	Guardian - Expectant mothers get mosquito nets
June 03, 2008	Lancashire Telegraph - East Lancashire woman has £200k goal to help poor
June 03, 2008	Letoile, France: Malaria Update
June 03, 2008	Straw aid: Saving lives in Burma
June 03, 2008	East Lancashire woman has £200k goal to help poor
May 28, 2008	Minnesota Daily : Designing in the green, globalized free market
May 25, 2008	Emirates News, UAE: - Red Crescent receives 10000 instant water purification devices
May 24, 2008	A new tool for fighting poverty : Smart design
May 24, 2008	Red Crescent receives 10,000 'LifeStraw' instant water purification devices from BinSina Pharmacy
May 23, 2008	ShelterBox and Rotarians reaching out to aid Chinese earthquake victims
May 23, 2008	Seeing crisis as opportunity
May 20, 2008	Pure: Clean drinking water for all of humanity.
May 20, 2008	The Times of Zambia - World unites to kick out Malaria
May 20, 2008	' Water for all donates' LifeStraw® to students in Kenya.
May 19, 2008	Breaking Travel News : Richard Branson personally hands out LifeStraw® in Kenya
May 15, 2008	LifeStraw® reaches Burma post the recent aftermath.
May 12, 2008	The New York academy of Sciences : Scientists Without Borders^SM Unveils Web Portal to Drive Global Scientific Collaboration
May 11, 2008	Punch, Nigeria: Vestergaard, WHO others bemoan, dangers of malaria
May 09, 2008	The Australian- The other of Invention
May 08, 2008	Syracuse.com: Children raise money for water purifiers
Apr 29, 2008	Francistown - PSI launches treated mosquito nets
Apr 25, 2008	Times of Zambia - Three hundred nets donated to Livingstone general hospital.
Apr 25, 2008	Zambia Daily mail - Princess Astrid of Belgium and musician Yvonne Chaka Chaka hands out 135 millionth Permanet® bednets in celebration of World Malaria Day
Apr 25, 2008	Trading Markets ,Los Angeles,CA,USA - Roll Back Malaria Zambezi Expedition Arrives In Livingstone.
Apr 24, 2008	Zambia:Child Receives 135 millionth PermaNet® Bed Net
Apr 23, 2008	Project H: Fund a Lifestraw for Mumbai for $25
Apr 23, 2008	LifeStraw Family: Cheap Water Filtration for World's Poor
Apr 19, 2008	Daily News, Los Angeles: Green Rush
Apr 10, 2008	Calibre- Enzi Stresses Need to Address the Health Effects of Global Poverty
Apr 01, 2008	The American- Techno-Ideas- Thirst Aid- LifeStraw
Mar 25, 2008	A life-saver tested
Mar 14, 2008	Drinking Water. A Challenge for All
Mar 10, 2008	Developing world to benefit from Vestergaard acquisition
Mar 09, 2008	Uganda: A Simple Way to Get Safe Water
Mar 06, 2008	Minister endorses cost effective measures to tackle water related diseases
Mar 03, 2008	Adweek - Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen - Developer of the LifeStraw water purifier
Feb 28, 2008	Sudan Tribune: Sudan distributes anti-malaria nets in war affected areas
Feb 28, 2008	Guardian Newspaper - Science - Firm launches new water treatment product
Feb 27, 2008	A Portable Filtration Device is Named World Changing Idea
Feb 26, 2008	FastCompany.com - Saatchi & Saatchi - World Changing Ideas - LifeStraw®
Feb 25, 2008	An Ad Agency Tries to Change the World
Feb 25, 2008	Scientific American - Water Filtration System in a Straw
Feb 25, 2008	LifeStraw® Wins World Changing Ideas Award
Feb 21, 2008	Outlook Money - Swiss company to launch low cost water purifier
Feb 17, 2008	New Vision Online (Uganda) - Water purifier launched
Feb 16, 2008	The Standard - Repatriation of IDPs criticised
Feb 12, 2008	LifeStraw® Water Purifier Introduced
Feb 09, 2008	Standard (Kenya): Water Purifier Launched
Feb 08, 2008	Life saving technological innovation in Ghana
Jan 29, 2008	Medway Pupils Raise Funds for Clean Water
Jan 21, 2008	Making Progress - These 3 companies from across the globe are creating products specifically intended to help developing countries.
Jan 11, 2008	Community Press: Area students strive to help Congolese
Dec 30, 2007	Rockbridge Weekly's Newsline: Stuart Hall Students Work on Important Projects
Dec 26, 2007	Botswana: PSI Launches Treated Mosquito Nets
Dec 21, 2007	PBS: Transcripts: Bill Moyers Journal
Dec 15, 2007	Ensuring safe water for the needy with mobile purification tool
Dec 14, 2007	Red Crescent and BinSina Pharmacy launch humanitarian campaign
Dec 3, 2007	Lifestraw mark II - push to expand distribution of upgraded lifesaving invention
Nov 30,2007	Ecropolis, Inc - video on top innovators presented at a conference of entrepreneurs
Nov 30,2007	Sipping salvation
Nov 19, 2007	School Trying To Buy LifeStraws
Nov 12, 2007	Madagascar ups its game in battle against malaria
Oct 22, 2007	PR Newswire: Government of Madagascar and Coalition of Global Partners Launch Measles and Malaria Prevention Campaign
Oct 15, 2007	News.com: For disruptive technologies, look to material sciences
Sep 26, 2007	MSNBC video: Cleaner water for Africa's poor
Sep 26, 2007	MSNBC - The Daily Nightly - Eco-Jargon
Sep 13, 2007	Save the Children addresses immediate survival needs of children and families affected by Hurricane Felix
Aug 27, 2007	Humanitarian effort nets award for boy, 10
June 13, 2007	CBS News: Katie: "Invention Of The Century"?
June 11, 2007	Newsweek: $3 Gadget Produces Safe Drinking Water
June 7, 2007	LifeStraw®: Personal Water Purification Tool
May 20, 2007	Just Design - LifeStraw®
May 18, 2007	Gimme Innovative Shelter - LifeStraw®
May 8, 2007	Design for the rest of the world: LifeStraw®
Mar 30, 2007	World Ark - Clean water for $10
Mar 24, 2007	LE MONDE: Drinking water for all?
Feb 1, 2007	FastCompany.Com - The 2007 Fast 50 - Vestergaard Frandsen